Podcasts
Croydon At The End of WWII
Collection Access Officer Mandy Smith reads an extract on Croydon at the end of the war in ‘Chapter 8. The Victory Year’ from W.C. Berrick Sayers’ Croydon and the Second World War.
-Mandy Smith
Victory Day in Croydon
Hear our Collections Access Officer, Simon Barnett read an extract from Croydon: The Second World War by W.C. Berwick Sayers
-Simon Barnett
OS Maps
Collections Access Officer Simon Barnett talks through one of our most popular maps from our archive collection and what they can offer you for your reseach.
-Simon Barnett
Tracing the Riesco Collection
Chinese porcelain and ceramics: vessels that represent movement, exchange and connection. The Museum of Croydon contains a collection of over 200 Chinese ceramics and porcelain, dating from as early as the Han dynasty, all way through to the Qing dynasty. The collection is named after a gentleman called Raymond Riesco. How did it find its way to Croydon?
- Daisy Chan joined by Daniel Chen